Word: proof
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...million, partly to provide more agents to patrol the Mexican-American border. Reagan also proposes to fine businesses that employ four or more people up to $1,000 for each illegal alien they hire. Although Reagan has rejected Attorney General Smith's proposal for a counterfeit-proof Social Security card, the Administration will recommend that an alien job seeker must produce two forms of identification for employers and must sign a form swearing that he is in the U.S. legally...
...parent household and the increase in two-income families have helped create a whole new crop of parents ready to make almost any sacrifice (boarding schools cost between $5,000 and $8,000 a year) to give their children a chance at what appears to be an inflation-proof possession, a good education. -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Joseph Pilcher/Los Angeles and Marc Levinson/Atlanta, with other U.S. bureaus
...ouster was formal proof that Deng had succeeded in his four-year struggle to shift the balance of power in the Peking leadership and win wide-based acceptance for his program to speed up China's economic growth. To fight Hua and his supporters, Deng had carefully put together a coalition of his own composed of thousands of officials who had been ignominiously disgraced-like Deng and Hu themselves-during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, returning from exile only after Mao's death. Under Deng, this group has sought to free China from the rigid constraints Maoism...
Even if the survey was as "scientific" as Wildmon claims, there is little proof that the would-be censors of CBTV represent any broader group than the conservative Christian organizations from which they were rather casually drawn. TIME correspondents last week found no upsurge in protest calls and letters to networks, local stations, sponsors or retail stores. CBS had received only about 50 letters on the proposed boycott; half opposed the idea. NBC Vice Chairman Richard Salant said he had recently received 'thousands" of Christian brochures, some with accompanying letters, a pattern familiar to networks and rarely taken seriously...
Another aftermath of the raid was the appeal last week by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for international help to provide the Arabs with nuclear bombs. This, said Saddam, would establish "a balance of terror" between the Arabs and Israel. Begin seized on Saddam's statements as proof that Israel had been right in its contention that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons and thus justified in bombing the facility. Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Foreign Minister, then became the first leading Israeli politician to admit publicly that Israel has "the ability to quickly produce nuclear weapons." However, Israel has said nothing...